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Birthday November 10, 1949

• The temperature on November 10, 1949 was between 6.4 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
  • March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
  • April 1 » The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
  • June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
  • December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
  • December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1948 » Aaron Brown, American journalist and academic
• 1948 » Shigesato Itoi, Japanese video game designer and voice actor, created EarthBound
• 1948 » Steven Utley, American author and poet († 2013)
• 1949 » Ann Reinking, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1949 » Don Saleski, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 » Mustafa Denizli, Turkish footballer and manager